That says end its process right? Or did i miss read it?

Dam, i used avast virus cleaning tool to scan the prefetch folder and no virus was found..... SO what now? I cant find any virus in prefetch and cant end System Idle process....

Have a look at each of the thread links that discuss this. I believe there's at least one that says which file to remove in order to put functionaliy back on the map. It's in regards to start up items afaik. But read it & you might find i'm wrong (I haven't read it for a couple of mths at least.)

The links are: ...............

ARGH!!! I still cant find a file in the folder prefetch!!! Help me!!!

I think I may have found another file name for the infected firus file.
In the instrunctions it says delete anything with winupdates in it.
I have a file called aupdate.exe that was created the same day as i obtained the virus. Could this be the file?

Hi all, I've had the same problem for a couple of weeks and it has been driving me crazy. I followed everyones directions but nothing would work, tried numerous anti virus programs and still nothing.

It wasnt until I noticed some strange folders that appeared on a couple of scans which i didnt reckonise, i couldnt find them even with hidden folders and files shown. I found 2 folders that contained 1000's of .zip folders that all contained virus's and where named after films and games. I found these in the below directories;

C:\Documents and Settings\James\Complete
C:\Uploads

I believe LW is picking these folders up and displaying them on searches. They all had a file called MOVIE, which is this stupid virus/worm :mad:

Both the above folders contained these .zip virus folders. I had to manually type the above in either DOS or in the address bar in Windows.

Once I deleted these folders I repeated the steps everyone suggested and found that I had a few virus/worms on my comp, there are

winupdate.
winupdates.
MsUpdate.
ms-update.

Once these where removed the problem stopped (well so far, fingers crossed)

Hope this helps any other fustrated users.

James

I found that folder with all those zipped folders with a file called movie in each of them.
It was like 1.3GB the folder!!!
Most of it was like in some latin or something language to....so its long gone now.
I found MSupdate too, its deleted.....
STILL GOT VIRUS!

the weirdest thing jst happened,

Norton just came on out of nowhere, and said that it found 2 virus' on my computer 'Winupdates' and "svchost' or something, repaired them, and now i can use the Ctrl+Alt+Del again, i have no idea how it found them or why it took this long but it seemed to fic everything!

have faith everyone, u never know when something might happen!

thanks for all the help on this forum too guys!

thanks!!
 

yeah!! it totally worked.. my worms were called the following:

msupdate.exe
ms-update.exe

it creeps up on you though because when you open up the task manager, it DOES NOT take up any processes % at all!! so please be aware of that!!


thanks so much you guys!!